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?ReadMe explaining replication material for
Electoral Systems and The Autocrat's Trade-Off: Evidence From The Russian Duma
World Politics, vol 76, nr 4 (2024)
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The central replication material includes the following:

Replication_analysis.R: 
- The �R� scripts for replicating the tables and figures in the main text

Replication_appendix.R:
- 	The �R� scripts for replicating the tables and figures in the appendix

In the �extras� folder one can furthermore find the train data as well as the script training the random forest classifier. In addition, an example of how to call the Duma API is attached as an �R� script. Api keys and tokens will need to be configured on the Duma website linked in the script.

*Usage*

Replication plots are visualized in the �R� plot window. With respect to tables, the �R� scripts output �.tex� files directly to the �tables� folder. The scripts create tables and figures in the order in which they appear in the text. 

Building the tables directly in �R� allows for a large degree of flexibility in creating tailormade tables, but simultaneously it makes the table output in �R� unreadable. For this reason, an easy approach to verify results is to 1) run the script in its entirety and 2) open �tables/Replication_test.tex� 3) input the desired table where currently it says �T2.tex�. If latex is not installed on the computer, OpenAI�s ChatGPT can easily convert the �.tex� output in the �R� console into readable tables. Tables are named after their placement in the text, e.g. �T3.text� og �TA4.text�.


